Woman Stabbed At Bar

POMPANO BEACH — A 32-year-old Pompano Beach woman was in critical condition Sunday night after being stabbed with a butcher knife in a crowded bar by another woman, according to police.

Kathrine Miller, of the 1900 block of Northwest 14th Terrace, underwent surgery for a back wound at Humana Hospital Cypress, said Lt. Charles Lane of the Pompano Beach police.

Arrested three hours after the stabbing was Betty Milton Hite, 39, of the 400 block of Northwest Seventh Avenue, who was charged with attempted murder, police said.

Lane said Miller and her husband had just arrived at the Melody Bar at 913 Hammondville Road about 7 p.m. when the incident occurred. Her husband had gone into the restroom when Miller and another woman began arguing, Lane said. Although the bar was crowded with patrons watching television, the woman pulled a long-bladed butcher knife, Lane said.

Miller threw a beer bottle at her attacker but when she turn to flee, the woman plunged the knife into Miller`s back.

``The victim fell out the front door and with dozens of people watching the woman just put her knife away and took off in a car parked outside,`` Lane said.

Hite was arrested at a home in the 800 block of Northwest 17th Terrace at 10:45 p.m., Lane said.